Victor Lewis "Vic" Halom (born 3 October 1948) is an English former football player and manager who played as a striker.
Having only joined the club three months earlier, he scored important goals in the fifth round replay against Manchester City and the semi-final against Arsenal.
The side struggled to gel at first but things markedly improved when the under-performing record signing Les Lawrence was sold and replaced by proven goalscorer Steve Taylor late in 1984.
For the next calendar year Rochdale showed promotion-winning form and earned a third round FA Cup tie with Manchester United.
[citation needed] Immediately after that the team went into steep decline not helped by the disastrous signing of David Mossman who moved on at a loss after less than ten games At the end of the season despite Rochdale having escaped re-election by one point Halom was retained but told by chairman Tommy Cannon to try to sell those players under expensive contracts.